A Randomized Trial of Interim Methadone and Patient Navigation Initiated in Jail

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

225

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

December 15, 2014

Primary Completion Date

March 8, 2019

Study Completion Date

May 31, 2020

Conditions
Opioid Use Disorder
Interventions
DRUG

Methadone

Interim methadone treatment (methadone without routine counseling) will be provided in jail. Methadone treatment with counseling will be continued in the community.

BEHAVIORAL

Patient Navigation

A patient navigator will assist the participant for the first three months after release from jail to enter and remain in methadone treatment in the community.

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Treatment as Usual (ETAU)

Participants will receive methadone detoxification, drug abuse and overdose prevention information, drug treatment and overdose prevention referral in the community.

Trial Locations (1)

21202

Baltimore City Detention Center, Baltimore

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

collaborator

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

OTHER

lead

Friends Research Institute, Inc.

OTHER